Chapter 3 The Skeletal System Elements Flashcards

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end-

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in, within

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peri-

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surrounding, around

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poly-

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many, much

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ankyl/o

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crooked, bent, stiff

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arthr/o

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joint

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chondr/i, chondr/o

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cartilage

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cost/o

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rib

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crani/o

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cranium, skull

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hem/o

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blood, relating to blood

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ili/o

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ilium, flaring hip bone

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kyph/o

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bent, hump

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lamin/o

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lamina

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lord/o

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curve, swayback, bent

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myel/o

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spinal cord, bone marrow

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oss/e, oss/i ost/o, oste/o

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bone

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pod/o

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foot

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sacr/o

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sacrum

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scoli/o

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curved, bent

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spondyl/o

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vertebrae, vertebral column, backbone

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synovi/o, synov/o

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synovial membrane, synovial fluid

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-ago

A

abnormal condition, disease

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-al

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pertaining to

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-algesia, -algesic

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painful, pain sense

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-clasis, -clast

A

break down

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-desis

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to bind, tie together

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-iatrist

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specialist

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-itis

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inflammation

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-listhesis

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slipping

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-lysis

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breakdown, separation, setting free, destruction, loosening

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-malacia

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abnormal softening

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-necrosis

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abnormal tissue death

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-oma

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tumor, neoplasm

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-otomy

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cutting, surgical incision

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-pathy

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disease, suffering, feeling, emotion

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-penia

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deficiency, lack, too few

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-poiesis

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formation, to make

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-rrhaphy

A

surgical suturing

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-sclerosis

A

abnormal hardening

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-scopy

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visual examination

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-stenosis

A

abnormal narrowing

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-um

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thing, singular noun ending